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*This story is based on a story I read in a Chicken Soup for the Soul book.
Man, was I pysched. Who wasn't pysched about their Sweet Sixteen? Sweet was right! All us rich kids got cars for our Sweet Sixteen! So me and my dad went to pick one out. I picked a red sports car with orange and red fire on the sides. It was awesome. I'd be the talk of the school! My dad agreed to buy it.
We couldn't buy it now, because there was no space in our garage. We'd hire someone to make the garage more spacious. I went home, satisfied that Red Flamer(my beauty) was perfect and mine.
On the day of my birthday, I was all excited, because tommorow we'd be going on a school trip, and if we had cars, we could skip the bus. I had the spent the year riding other people's cars, and I never got to drive. My dad gave the first gift of the day, right after the pool contests. My dad proudly walked up to me and handed me a package wrapped in wrapping paper. I took the package and ripped it open, spraying paper and ribbon in all directions. I felt like I was opening a Christmas present. I was a dumb kid, I admit, and I was the judge-a-book-by-it's-cover
type of kid. I was rich and spoiled and snobby.
So when I saw the plain brown cover of the Bible, I threw it on the floor and ran into the house. I mean, I had been waiting 16 years for this car, and instead I got a stupid Bible. I refused to talk to my father and hear his stupid explanations. I wanted a check, but instead I got some stupid...Bible.
My dad died of lung cancer two years later, and I still hadn't made up with him. I didn't care that he'd died. He promised be a check, and gave me a Bible. I was going through his possesions, and saw the old Bible. It was torn in some places and had a few pages that had the mark of being wet from when'd thrown it on the ground, close to the edge of the pool. I blew the dust from the Bible and remembered the worst birthday of my life. Opening the cover of the Bible, I saw a paper sticking out. Opening to that page, I saw a check adressed to me on the date of my birthday 2 years ago in the exact amount of Red Flamer.
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